Information For

Dr Titia Benders

BA UvA, MA UvA, PhD UvA.

Associate Investigator

Contact Details

Phone : +61 2 9850 4154email : titia.benders@mq.edu.au

External Address

Department of Linguistics,
Macquarie University

Profile

Titia Benders investigates developing phonological representations at the interface between perception, production, and input. Her main interest is in monolingual typically developing children up to three years of age, with occasional (and increasingly more frequent) excursions to bilinguals, kindergartners, children that develop in less typical circumstances, and adult first- and second-language learners. A second line of research concerns the linguistic and emotional properties of infant-directed speech by parents (i.e., both mothers and fathers). Her work has a strong methodological angle, employing techniques from phonetics and developmental psychology, as well as recent statistical insights.

Wanrooij, K., Boersma, P., & Benders, T. (2015). Observed effects of “distributional learning” may not relate to the number of peaks. A test of “dispersion” as a confounding factor. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1341. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01341

Benders, T. (2013, October). How babies learn language from the way we talk to them. Invited presentation given at the School of Psychology, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle.

Benders, T. (2013, September). Infants and models associate phonemes with multiple cues. But what about the abstractness of the representations? Invited presentation given at the Modelling Meets Infant Studies in Language Acquisition Workshop, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands.

Benders, T. (2011, January). Representing sociophonetic knowledge in the bidirectional model of phonetics and phonology. Paper presented at the 8th Old World Conference in Phonology, Marrakech, Morocco.